You are not stuck.
You are unfolding.
Midlife coaching for women and men, who are feeling a transition occurring in their lives. Their career, their identity or they’re just not quite sure what needs to shift, in order to move into the next chapter. Online coaching from the Netherlands, in English.
This is your invitation to pause, reconnect and remember who you are becoming.
I’m Karen, a certified midlife coach, perimenopause aware, supporting women and men navigating the emotional, personal, and professional transitions of life.
About me…
I’m from Ireland, I’ve been living in the Netherlands for 25 years. Im married, and have a 10 year old daughter.
As someone raising a family abroad, I understand the complexities of weaving your own culture into another, the inner negotiations and the subtle identity shifts.
Before coaching, I worked as a hair colourist, where I spent years in deep, honest conversations with women, often about the very shifts we struggle to name: changes in identity, purpose, energy, relationships.
Over time, I realised I wasn’t just helping them feel confident on the outside. I was holding space for something far more meaningful within. That’s where my passion for coaching was born.
I trained with a highly respected coaching school and continue to invest in mentoring and self-reflection to grow in presence, and skill. Coaching became a natural next step in my own midlife journey, a path of unfolding, not fixing.
I work with all women and men, from professionals and creatives to caregivers and entrepreneurs, who are ready to stop powering through and start listening inward. I believe coaching isn’t about fixing yourself, its about coming home to yourself.
If you are ready to reconnect with the part of you that’s been quiet for too long, I would be honoured to walk with you on your journey. Let’s explore what’s trying to emerge from within you, one conversation at a time.
You are not stuck, you are unfolding.
How We Work Together
The coaching space is a quiet, powerful pause in your life — a place where you can unpack what’s shifting, reflect deeply, and begin to reconnect with yourself.
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At the heart of our work together is your coaching topic — a clear, meaningful statement that captures what you want to focus on and shift during our time together.
• It might relate to how you show up in relationships.
• How you navigate work or change, or how you treat yourself when things get hard. How do you treat others when things get hard?
We’ll take time in our initial conversation to shape this topic so that it’s precise, emotionally meaningful, and personally relevant.
Having a clear topic means you’re not just showing up to coaching for general insight — you’re showing up with intention. This clarity is crucial as helps you,
• Track your own growth.
• Notice patterns more easily, and making deliberate choices aligned with who you’re becoming.
Throughout the programme, your topic will act as both an anchor and a compass: keeping you grounded in your why, and guiding you toward the transformation you’re here for.
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Once we’ve named your topic, I will offer you something powerful: metaphors. We will work with two metaphors.
• One that represents how you currently relate to your topic — the patterns, emotions, or behaviors that feel familiar (but perhaps limiting, this is why your here).
• And another, one that symbolizes how you want to relate to it — the values-led way of being that you’re growing toward.
We’ll get to know these metaphors deeply. They’ll become touchstones in your journey, a visual and compassionate reminders of the choices available to you.
Compassion is the cornerstone of the metaphor method. Building compassion is the heart of our coaching. It is the only tool you need to progress in achieving your topic
Over time, you’ll begin to catch yourself “in the act” of your old metaphor — and that awareness gives you something profound: choice. From there, we build the capability and courage for you to respond differently. To unfold.
This is not about pushing yourself to change overnight. It’s about gently growing the muscles to meet your topic with calm, clarity, and alignment — again and again — in a way that feels like you.
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After each coaching session, you’ll receive a tailor-made practical exercise— an activity based on our coaching session to help you build the real-life muscles needed to create change in how you relate to your topic.
These practices are your bridge between coaching sessions and everyday life. They’re not about doing more for the sake of it — they’re about doing differently, with awareness, intention and compassion for you and for those who you value in your life.
You’ll be invited to reflect daily through journalling on what you noticed: how your metaphors showed up, how you responded, and where you had the opportunity to choose a new way. This is where real transformation begins.
Journalling is not just a few words its taking the time to truly reflect, to look back on your day. If you want to see change you have to put the effort in, even when you’re tired. Reflection questions are given in your practice to make the journalling process a smooth and easy habit to adopt into your daily routine.
Insight alone is powerful — you’ll have plenty of aha! moments — but it’s practice that turns insight into real change. Over time, you’ll begin to meet your limiting beliefs head-on, with growing clarity, strength, and self-trust.
By the end of our work together, you’ll not only have insight, you’ll have moved through your topic in a way that feels aligned with your values, and into a new chapter that feels more deeply like you.
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Two Sessions - Short coaching package-Fee €160
Perfect if you’re curious about coaching or want focused insight on a specific challenge.
• 1 × Intake Session (60 minutes): We explore what’s present for you, clarify your topic, and begin to understand why it matters.
• 1 × Offer Session (60 minutes): I reflect back a refined version of your topic, my understanding of its emotional importance, and offer two metaphors that capture how you relate to your topic — now, and ideally.
This is a beautiful standalone experience to gain clarity and a fresh lens on your current beliefs, behaviours and how you justify those behaviours. -
Six Sessions -Fee €480
For women ready to begin shifting a specific pattern or way of being.
• 1 × Intake & Offer Session
• 3 × Coaching Sessions (60 minutes): Deepen your understanding of the metaphors, build emotional capability, and explore how you want to move forward.
• Tailored practices between sessions
• 1 × Completion Session: Reflect on your growth and anchor the changes you’ve made.
This focused container is designed to help you build awareness, recognising and start changing patterns, and reconnect with your values. -
Eight Session - Fee €640
For women navigating transitions, identity shifts, or emerging clarity. More space. More depth. More support.
• 1 × Intake & Offer Session
• 5 × Coaching Sessions
• Custom practices to build awareness and capability
• Completion Session to honour your journey and steady your next steps -
Ten Sessions - Fee €800
This is your full arc of support — ideal if you’re ready to commit to deep change that sticks.
• Intake & Offer Sessions
• 7 × Coaching Sessions
• Tailor made practices between sessions
• Completion Session to celebrate, reflect, and move forward with clarity and trust
“Karen’s guidance has been invaluable in both my work and family life. She helped me identify my hurdles, understand my strengths and weaknesses, and challenged me to be honest and vulnerable. Her thoughtful coaching created the space I needed for real clarity and growth.”
— Heleen, Amsterdam.
“Karen made me feel deeply listened to and understood in a way that few other people have. Through her warm, perceptive, and non-judgmental presence in our sessions and a series of thoughtfully crafted practices and reflections, she helped me to notice the subtle mental and behavioral patterns that I wanted to change and take steps towards a new way of being. By the end of our time together, I felt that I was able to move through the world with a greater sense of ease, confidence, and comfort with being myself. Most importantly, Karen’s coaching helped me to feel more open and connected to others.”
— Isabella, Amsterdam.
“Karen’s coaching style is really invaluable and special. Instead of looking negatively at my problem, Karen was able to help me change my perspective and see the situation from another way around. Being kind to my current self in order to become my future self has been much more rewarding and fruitful than trying to it push away. Karen is so kind and lovely, she is the human embodiment of drinking a sweet warm milky tea inside by the fire on a cold rainy day.”
— Keely, Amsterdam.
“After major changes in my life - becoming a mother, moving country, leaving a job that drained me and crossing over to my early 40s, I was completely lost! Karen listened carefully and very gently helped me to come out of this and to listen to my intuition again. Her approach was easy for me to implement into my everyday life which made it so effective for me. I am incredibly grateful for her guidance and sensitivity in the process!”
— Julia, Amsterdam.
Let’s chat.
Book a free introductory call - let’s explore your topic and see what support feels right for you.